Howard Johnson Tropicana

The service is deplorable. My niece booked her boss here and while sorting out details, they forgot to place her on hold and the manager called her a very, very bad name.

If you are on vacation, please send a little more at a better hotel. The homeless people were a bit annoying but the $ 100 deposit was the kicker.
The good side was the room was clean, but don’t expect a continental breakfast

*Note. This is NOT a 4 star hotel. The rating is for cleanliness in comparison to affordability ONLY.
ON the strip, across from MGM. Close walk to EVERYTHING!
Right next to a mom n’ pops type restaurant that serves HUGE breakfast portions for very cheap. *Coco’s
Pool is clean and also has clean beach size towels.
This hotel is outdated when it comes to interior décor, but it serves it’s purpose. If you’re coming to Vegas, you probably don’t plan on spending much time in your room. So if you want to keep your lodging budget low, but still have a clean place to lay your head, this is it!
A round of applause needs to be made for ANY hotel that is dated, yet affordable and has maintained a higher standard of cleanliness.

Upon checking in on June 5^th the staff at the front desk were so rude. I almost was about to tell them cancel my room but because all the hotels in Vegas was sold out I just dealt with the rudeness. Finally when I got up to the room. I had to move furniture around just to make a decent path to get to the bathroom. Yah that bad.
The beds were really comfy and my friends were happy we had a place to stay for 2 nights. I do wish the wifi would had work. They were sold out so according to the rude staff they said when they are sold out the wifi signal doesn’t work. BS. After waking up on Monday morning and getting breakfast down on the strip (cocos nearby is nasty… stay away) afternoon to arrive then we all headed back to swim but I wanted to check the wifi. No signal. I went to the lobby and got perfect signal.
This shows they want guest to go to the lobby for the wifi and not be in the rooms.
I will not be coming back due to the rudeness of the staff and the wifi doesn’t work plus police showed up at 2am with sirens.
Not a safe hotel when u have police arriving

Room itself was at least a 3 I guess, especially for a little under $ 40 on a weekday being a short walk from the south end of the Strip. They advertise as having renovated in 2014 and everything in the room did look newish and fairly clean, if basic and w/​a limited cable selection (but at least the wifi was good). Bed was comfy, shower was good.
Bunch of outside-​the-​room stuff knocks it to a 2 though:
* $ 100 deposit, was told would be released at checkout, was actually held for eight days instead
* No breakfast whatsoever (coffee maker in room though)
* I think the America’s Best Value next door does cheap «weeklies», heard people arguing over their dope while walking thru the parking lot. Not sure if this place does weeklies as well but it seemed like a dealer was living nearby as people were pounding on someone’s door at 2 – 3 AM repeatedly and tweaky-​sounding guys were yelling for someone
* They can’t really control this but near the entrances is a lounge spot for some REALLY funky hobos
* When I stayed there were very few people and I saw empty rooms everywhere the next morning, yet they had to cram the six people that were in my building all right up next to each other. Thanks for parking us all right up next to the meth dealer.
* Bad spot for walking to affordable food. I mean, great if you want Strip access (and all the super high prices that come with that), but if you don’t care about that the only place not in an unreasonable walk in the beating sun is Coco’s. You can take the 202 bus a short ride down Tropicana from out front to the intersection with Maryland, though, where there is a Smith’s grocery, Del Taco and a few other restaurants.
Doable for men used to roughing it for a night or two. Would probably not go as single women or a family w/​kids though.

Just checked in. Walked into the room and are currently checking out. This place is disgusting!

From the moment we opened the door, a strong 409 smell came at us. Or could have been febreeze… Regardless… whoever cleaned this room sprayed the crap out of it. There was gum on the side wall, bath tub extremely dirty, and filthy floors. My daughter was walking with her socks from the bed to the bathroom and back and when she jumped on the bed we saw the bottom of her sock completely black from the dirty floor. Wouldn’t recommend this hotel in the area it’s at if you have a family.

My boyfriend and I were looking for a cheap place to crash at for a few hours before our long drive home so Howard Johnson seemed like the perfect place for that. However, the receptionist at the front desk had resting bitch face and a terrible attitude to go with it that we decided to get a room elsewhere! It’s like, bitch I am a paying customer and the reason why you have a job so don’t give me an attitude for no reason! Anyhow, I will never even consider staying here again.

The rooms were great for the price, noise level was eh but great when you consider the location of the place. Adjusting the room to your liking was easy and the shower was actually great not like your usual no-​tell-​motel. My room was clean and comfortable so I had a wonderful experience. WiFi and cable were the only downers but functional, the rest of the room made up for it.

It’s a piece of shhhhh serious it stinks don’t look as nice as those pictures that’s for sure and its pretty creepy here at night.

So here’s the deal on this place, plain and simple.
It looks run-​down, and shady. And it is. Because:
1. Homeless people in and around the parking lot.
2. Quite a while to check-​in because of many people arguing with the counter staff.
3. Broken things in the room (lamp)
4. Dirty things in the room (leftover shaving razor stuff behind the toilet on the floor)
5. The random guy who came pounding on my door (took a look through the peep hole, dude looked gangstery, so I definitely wasn’t going to answer.
6. Carpet must not have been cleaned in a long, LONG time. My socks got dirty just walking on it.
7. Beds were not in the best condition. (Stains/​holes in some bedding)
The good points:
1. It’s cheap. Ran me less than $ 100 for my 3 night stay.
2. Bed was comfortable for me. I slept well.
3. Shower had good flow and hot water.
4. There is a coco’s restaurant and a liquor store that has some sundries and other supplies, both basically in the same parking lot.
5. It is across the street from the MGM Grand, very close to the strip.
6. Room heater/​AC worked great!
I would advise single female travelers away from this place. (Mostly for the random people roaming around at night and the gangster guy who came knocking at my door).
This place is good for people who are coming to Vegas for an event that is on or near the strip, who are coming in groups, and need a place to stay on the cheap. Beyond this, pay the extra $ and stay in one of the nicer, safer strip hotels.
Two stars because while the room was not bad, the locale is very questionable at best.

We had two rooms, two full beds in each. The rooms are pretty gross, found old cigarette butts on the floor (it was a smoking room but still), the sheets on two of the beds were disgustingly stained, one room had coffee and cups and creamer and sugar but the other did not. Overall the rooms were just not that great, it shows the rooms are updated, this was not the case with our room, very old and dated. The carpet was so freakin gross oh man. 1 minute in your socks and your socks turned black! DISGUSTING! One of the days we were there the water in both rooms shut off, after calling the front desk is when they tell us that they are doing some maintenance on the plumbing and it would be off 5 mins to one hour. . umm are you kidding me? That’s a pretty big gap. And you could have at the VERY least given us a heads up that it would be happening. My whole group needed to shower before we headed out so we decided to wait until the water came back on. Well two hours later still NO WATER. So we call the front desk again and they say they have no control over the water and it will be on when they are done. RUDE! So we decide to just say forget the shower and head out, we already wasted enough time waiting.
Now the only positive thing I will say about this place is the grounds staff, the younger guy that walks the grounds, don’t remember his name, he was awesome, we had a problem with our room keys when we first arrived and he walked back up to the lobby himself and got us some new ones. When he came back with the keys he waited to make sure they worked. That’s when we noticed that the toilet in the other room wasn’t flushing, he immediately called maintenance on the radio and stayed there with us while we waited for them to show up. He was very friendly and cool to talk to. He also waited until Fernando was done with the toilet to make sure we were good to go and didn’t need anything else. So I have to say 5 stars for him and Fernando, they were awesome! But overall its a «average at best» place to stay, it’s a place to crash and it’s close to the strip. Not sure if I’d stay again, but if I’m on a budget again, I’d consider it.

Jo Irgendwie kann ich manche Bewertungen hier nicht verstehen. Ich kann doch nur das Geld kein Luxushotel erwarten. Wir waren hier 3 Nächte verbracht und wussten was uns erwartet.
Klar ist alles lieblos versucht zu renovieren, was man am Teppich sieht oder aber auch an sämtlichen Rändern von Lampen oder spiegeln. Es blieb alles dran und man hat grob drumherum gemalt.
Vegas halt, genau darf man hier nicht hinschauen.
Für die reine Übernachtung hat es uns vollkommen gereicht, wir wussten was wir in Vegas wollen und was man machen kann.
Zum reinen, kostengünstigen übernachten ausreichend.
Anzumerken ist noch:
— Eiswürfelautomat ist nur Dekoration
— sogenannte «Penner» befanden sich bei uns nur vorn an der Zufahrt. (wie an zig anderen Stellen in Vegas)
— hellhörig.
— erste Etage ist besser als Erdgeschoss
— und als typisch Deutscher hat man die Schrauben der Türsicherung festgezogen ;-)
— Klima macht auf kleiner Stufe ordentlich «Rabatz»
— Bett wird nicht täglich gemacht (Handtücher werden täglich gewechselt)

There are quite a few varying reviews on this property. I was here for a 5 day class, so I did not want to spend a ton of money on a room that I would not be in for 99% of my stay. I needed something inexpensive, close to the strip, clean, with Free WiFi. This property fit the bill.
Again, I acknowledge the many poor reviews, but decided for the price, this met all my requirements.
The first day did not start so well, its a 2 story property with no elevator, so I hauled my bags to the room across the property. The front desk person keyed my room incorrectly. So I had to trudge down to the front desk and get a new key.
I finally get into my room and it is clean, but there is a musty smell. I search around and someone (housekeeping) left a wet towel behind the door. This of course tells me mopping sweeping of the bathroom, is not so consistent.
Moving on through the week, everything is pretty good. Room is clean, towels are exchanged.
Last night was a disaster. I come home after a long day, and beds are not made, towels still on the floor. I call down to the front desk ask what happened to housekeeping. They tell me, «Sorry nothing they can do Housekeeping has gone for the day». Since it was my last day, I say fine just take a portion off my bill. Thirty minutes later (18:00), when housekeeping was supposed already gone, shows up with their cart. I am tired and hungry and getting ready to shower, so I tell them do not worry about it.
Upon heading out to dinner, I stop by the desk to take care of some administrative work, and also remind them to give me a credit for my housekeeping not coming in. The front desk person says, they got the note and will investigate in the morning. I tell them there is nothing to investigate my room was not done, and would like a resolution before I check out early the next morning. They then turn to another supervisor who says they can send a houseman up to clean my room. I tell them no, I am on my way out for dinner. THey then tell me since I am «refusing» service there will be no credits. I tell them fine come clean my room, it is now 18:40 how long? The response was, «there are 2 requests ahead of you so you will have to wait», I press again how long since i was tired and hungry. The response, «there are 2 requests ahead of you, and I wont discuss this further with you».
I waited another 30 minutes for the houseman to clean my room.
No longer wanting to deal with front desk staff and their lack of customer service, I sent an email to the property general manager.
Mark, the GM, responded quickly, and provided me a credit for 1 nights stay.
In summary, you get what you pay for. Howard Johnson’s is not what it used to be and do not expect customer service from the front desk. But my room was clean, inexpensive, and close to the Strip.

Literally, the ONLY good thing is the closeness to the Strip.
I bought a room for tonight, Sept. 19, 2015 and to check out the next morning.
By the looks of it, I just want to leave right now as I am writing thia review, at 2am.
The only reason I chose to stay at this place was that it was relatively cheap compared to other hotels around, and it was only a 5 minute walk from the MGM Garden Arena where I went to attend the iHeartRadio Music Festival. The price was 144 dollars after tax for a Double Queen room, I think I should have paid a little more just to stay somewhere at least decent, but that is my fault.
Employees had an okay attitude.
Not even 5 minutes being inside the room, we saw a cricket. Even more crickets when we pulled out the bedstand to use the wall outlets. AND some dead ones.
The beds are not that comfortable, rather hard and lumpy. Also, something around the beds smell so bad — like body odor. Might be the bed or the pillow itself.
The TV has very basic channels, nothing more. And it has poor signal, a lot of static.
The bathroom door has no lock. The shower had no shower curtain.
Like I said, I should have paid more for a softer bed (and one that smelled better), more channels on the television, and ABSOLUTELY NO CRICKETS!

This is Vegas and you get what you pay for, and paying last minute $ 60 for a room right off the strip on a Friday is a good deal, but the rooms are still pretty sub-​par. I’ve never come to Vegas and stayed off The Strip, but Vegas was just where we took our flights in and out of Cabo from, so we aren’t here to do the Vegas experience, and we just wanted a cheap room to sleep in after a week of no-​stop go go go, and this was one of the cheapest deals with good pics in
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I really wanted to soak in a jetted tub last night when we got in, so I was excited for that bring something in the room description, but our room just had a hospital-​style handicap accessible shower. So that was strike one. I also booked a 2 double room, which sounds like it should have 2 double beds, but there was only one. I’m glad the others in our Cabo group weren’t with us, but the two of us in a double bed was not ideal, especially since you only get 2 pillows and they didn’t have extras when I asked, so it got real uncomfortable real quick. The walls and ceilings are paper thin too, and we were woken to the sound of our neighbors above us chatting.
If I’d paid the full $ 100+ to stay here, I’d be livid, but pay less than $ 75 for a room just off the Strip on a Friday night is hard to get too angry about.

Horrible place to stay. The pillows had to be replaced because they smelled horrible. Stains on the floor that have not been cleaned. The bed sheets don’t even fit the beds! The quality here is similar to staying in your car for a nights sleep. The only plus is cold, smelly ac.

The price and closeness to the strip are the only things good about this place — oh and the fact that there’s a liquor store and restaurant right beside it.
If you don’t mind the 10 homeless people who live in front of the hotel at night and nasty, dirty carpets then this is the place for you! One person in our room had white socks and after an hour in the room the bottom of his socks were completely black.
We were only in the room for a total of 10 hours the whole weekend, to sleep, so that’s the only reason we stayed there. If you’re looking to hang out and spend the majority of your time at your hotel while in Vegas, pay the extra $ 40 a night and stay at one of the main hotels on the strip cus this place doesn’t have much going for it!

If they had zero I would give it that rating. Scary area and looks a scene from a scary movie. Not to mention all the homeless people hanging around. You can tell they tried to make this abandoned looking building look decent but it was a fail. It just felt gross. I checked in and out quick! Although I did not have trouble getting my reservation changed by
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Scary and gross. Should have looked at Unilocal before booking the weekend here.
There was a hairball in the bathroom. The latch on the door is broken. Thin walls, lots of loud banging. Some of the banging was on our door, which was extra scary since there’s another girl staying here whose room was broken into and she was assaulted!
Have four lamps in here, two are broken. Generally not a good neighborhood.

Rooms are cleaned and is not as bad as people describe it. Overall, We didn’t have an issue with the hotel. It was cheap and employees were extremely nice. It is a 5 minute walk to the strip.
Although, walking back in the night can be a bit scary because is dark and you feel as if someone will jump out of the bushes and attack you. I would definitely get a taxi coming back to the hotel though. They only charged us $ 10 coming from Caesar palace.
We would go back.